History

Doctors is produced by BBC Birmingham and is screened on BBC One, with the first episode broadcast on 26 March 2000. It was created by Chris Murray, with Mal Young developing it and Carson Black the original producer. The show has been shown at lunchtime since its inception, originally at 12.30pm as a lead-in to the BBC's One O'Clock News. After it was temporarily moved to allow for extended news coverage of the 11 September 2001 attacks, its regular slot changed to 2:10pm, following directly after Neighbours, after ratings rose to a 25% audience share. When the BBC lost Neighbours to Channel 5 in January 2008, it moved into the Australian soap's old slot of 1:45pm. For a brief trial period in Summer 2000, selected episodes from the first series were shown on Fridays at 7pm and from 16 February 2009, the show began transmitting in high definition on BBC HD at 4:00pm the same day.

"There was already a cadre of South Africandoctors who had come here, and they were welcoming ... And, Houston became known as a place for South African doctors to make a new start in the Medical Center ... South African doctors One of the groups most likely to emigrate from South Africa in the late1970s was that of Jewish physicians ... Another study, from 2004, reported 5,334 South African-trained doctors were working in the U.S....

The NHS is poaching doctors from Ireland and leaving the country with a medical manpower crisis, an Irishdoctor claims ... GP Dr Nick Flynn, based in Cork, is worried the situation will get worse for people in Ireland after seeing an advert calling on 25 doctors to relocate to Essex. Irish GPs are really getting annoyed with NHS poaching doctors (Picture....

As if things weren’t bad enough, a recent advert of the company Just Diet (www.justdiet.in), claiming to be the “best doctor for weight-loss in Delhi” targets school children, offering them the best diets to beat stress during exams! While we can enjoy a little laugh at their expense, such clinics are no laughing matter, for the unsuspecting parents they suck in with these dubious promises....

With one in five people suffering in the UK, and the “pollen bomb” now upon us, the media is full of adverts promoting brands that will soothe and comfort ...America shells out more than $5 billion a year on allergy-type medicines, enticed by slick adverts and doctor ­recommendations. Still the adverts keep coming, but the hay fever is not cured....

That’s the vision of Eren Ozagir, the founder of PushDoctor, a digital healthcare company that can book you an appointment with a GP in under six minutes. After registering, users simply select an appointment or choose the on-demand option, which connects them to a doctor via a video link ... Push Doctor has faced some scrutiny recently after its adverts were banned for suggesting its service was provided by the NHS....

South Asiandoctors were the "lifeblood" of the NHS in its early years and prevented a recruitment crisis, a historian has said ... Some job adverts were marked for "British graduates" and many migrant doctors were forced into general practice in the most deprived areas of the country, roles considered less desirable by home-trained medics ... "By becoming family doctors, South Asian doctors prevented a GP recruitment crisis....

In its follow-up reports, The Caravan also unearthed possible manipulation in occupancy record at Ravi Bhawan; A top forensic expert ruled out heart attack as the cause of death; Employees at Ravi Bhawan denied any memory of the incidents on 1 December; Another report highlighted possible manipulation on the post-mortem report by a doctor....